Photo from page 19 of album WWI Photograph Album - Egypt.

DescriptionFour officers of A Company sitting on a rail line having a bite to eat. They are 23/10 Lieutenant Robert Gleadon Purdy, 23/1283 Lieutenant Bernard Russell Lankshear, 23/15 Charles Edwin Gilbert and 23/25 Second Lieutenant Joseph Leo McAlister. The far officer (with spurs) is 23/5 Captain Edward Puttick, already on the New Zealand Rifle Brigade Staff and future commander of the 3rd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade. He would win a Distinguished Service Order, and later as a Brigadier in World War II command 4 Brigade and briefly the New Zealand 2nd Division on Crete. He would rise to become a Lieutenant General, General in charge of New Zealand Forces, New Zealand August 1941 - 1945 PeriodWWICountryEgyptLocationAlexandriaUnit1st Battalion, NZRBSubjectNZ officersAcknowledgementPlease acknowledge the National Army Museum of New Zealand

National Army Museum (9th Mar 2015). Photo from page 19 of album WWI Photograph Album - Egypt.. In Website National Army Museum. Retrieved 25th May 2018 06:26, from http://nam.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/1500